Watch: Levitating Cars Mystery in China Solved

Surveillance video at a Chinese intersection captured what looked like two vans running into an invisible wall and being blown backwards.

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The video caused “levitating cars” to trend on Facebook, with people wondering what could make those cars levitate with one of them eventually overturning.

Well, it turns out that a fallen cable wire had gotten tangled up in the street sweeper visible to the right side of the screen, creating a tripwire at the busy intersection. The video is of such poor quality that the wire cannot be seen.

“I was driving slowly straight ahead,” a driver of the van said of the incident. “All of a sudden, I was lifted up. The street cleaner car snagged on the wire. The wire just so happened to be underneath our car and it sent us flying.”